Nearly five decades ago, Peter Higgs sent physicists on a chase to find a particle that gives the universe its mass. Today, at age 84, he, along with physicist François Englert, received the Nobel Prize in Physics for their work. The video above come...

Two scientists -- François Englert of Université Libre de Bruxelles, Brussels, Belgien, and Peter W. Higgs of the University of Edinburgh, UK -- were awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics this year for the theory of how particles acquire mass. In 1964, ...

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